Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adv] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been intended , purely and simply , as an insult , but it had come out with just a hint of that genuine curiosity that so unexpectedly had afflicted her just a moment before . |
| 2 | The first major place we reached was a city called Oradea where we realised that not much had changed in Romania since our last visit . |
| 3 | In the first place , by the eighteenth century a hierarchy of diplomatic ranks more clear-cut than ever before had emerged , though this process was still incomplete . |
| 4 | The mundane details of the denunciations , the decrees against Jews using the telephone or travelling on the Métro and so on had brought home to him that the French had both suffered by and been complicit in the Holocaust . |
| 5 | And they realized that all their efforts in controlling quality by inspection and so on had failed . |
| 6 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 7 | The growth of the liturgical movement , the lay apostolate , biblical scholarship , the need for Catholics to participate in democratic politics at least in order to protect Catholic rights , the urgency of collaborating locally with non-Catholics in opposition to Nazism : all this and much else had produced a profoundly altered consciousness within the more wide-awake parts of the Church by the later years of Pius XII 's reign . |
| 8 | The boy had lost the father he adored , and soon after had lost his darling mother also . |
| 9 | They had to find those to visit by answering a cryptic clue and once inside had to answer a question . |
| 10 | They had reached the beginning of the wood and still neither had spoken . |
| 11 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 12 | Timewise , the period of the flood and directly afterwards had become completely distorted in her mind . |
| 13 | And now later had come . |
| 14 | And how long had elapsed between the armed officers going in and Mr leaving flats ? |
| 15 | To her mind , Travis McKenna was definitely Mr Wrong … and yet today had brought a shivering awareness of him as a man — and herself as a woman . |
| 16 | Now individuals and community groups had the facts at their fingertips to refute the placatory statements of the developers and corporate businessmen , and no longer had to rely on instinctive judgements to support their case . |
| 17 | Then one day , before breakfast , I found her in the sitting room , and no longer had to rely on hearsay . |
| 18 | He had searched for this assassin by silent threat and bribery but so far had discovered nothing . |
| 19 | The teenager , now 17-years-old , confided in a friend but shortly afterwards had to return to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee for another supervisor . |